Teaching with A Mile In Our Shoes

Teaching with A Mile in Our Shoes content means facilitating conversations in your classrooms that can support your students in understanding multiple perspectives and building empathy. The tips below can help you get started.

Select a Text Set to explore with your students based on student interest, curriculum connections, or current events—and use the discussion questions that come with each Text Set to spark meaningful conversations

Join us for a conversation with Teaching Tolerance to discuss how to use our resources together to build empathy in the classroom. In this webinar, we'll share how you can use Teaching Tolerance’s Teaching the Movement resources and Newsela’s A Mile In Our Shoes Text Sets to promote inclusivity and understanding. Educators will gain the tools to foster rich discussions to promote identity, diversity, justice, and action within and beyond their classrooms.